[Pmwiki-users] CSS layout in pmwiki-0.6

[Christian Ridderström]

On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:

> I think there's a bug of sorts in the HTML 4.01 validator, it doesn't
> understand the trailing / at the end of the <link ... /> tag (and the /
> is required for XHTML compatibility.

Maybe we should let them know that somehow... :-)
(There was also this other weird thing that the validator choked on a few 
days ago)

> > * I think the part names would be easier to read if they were named like:
> > 	'wikihead-r' or 'wikihead_r' instead of 'wikiheadr' etc.
> 
> Probably, although I personally don't like underscores very much, so it'd
> be 'wikihead-r', 'wikihead-l', etc.  Also, for a long time underscores
> weren't valid in CSS identifiers (they are now according to the amended
> CSS2 specification, but some browsers still may not allow them).

Are '-' allowed?

> 
> > * I think it'd look nicer if:
> > 		SearchWiki
> > 		  WikiHelp
> > 	     RecentChanges
> >    was changed into:                   (or maybe using spaces:)
> > 		  WikiHelp			     Wiki help
> > 		SearchWiki		           Search wiki
> > 	     RecentChanges		        Recent changes
> 
> I'm thinking of changing it so that SearchWiki is actually given a small
> search box (in addition to a "Search" link)

I'm in favour of that (obviously: http://wiki.lyx.org).

>, WikiHelp becomes just "Help". 

Hmm... I probably wouldn't use that, I've separated the help into:

	Site help	- help about using this particular site
	Wiki help	- help about PmWiki authoring

so just writing 'help' isn't enough.

Slightly related: I also modified PmWiki/DocumentationIndex so that it 
now includes PmWiki/WikiHelp in the beginning - mainly because I prefer 
using the documentation index as my main help page for pmwiki.
 
> Any particular reasons for the ordering you suggest above?

Purely estethic reasons :-)   I.e. IMHO it looks just nicer with

		WikiHelp
	      SearchWiki
	   RecentChanges

because the length of the items are increasing... 

/Christian

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